• Saleh@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

    The other day a guy i met from the D.C. area told me that low quality coffee costs 20$ a bag. Fucking pregrinded coffee for the filter machine. You can get the luxury beans for that money in Europe.

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      21 days ago

      Maybe at a more expensive convenience store, or he’s like many idiots that shop somewhere like Whole Foods and because they’re used to seeing some $70/bag organic free-range non-GMO gluten-free coffee grown in the Himalayas by a small sect of previously uncontacted monks, the “cheap stuff” is the $20 bag of stuff that’s similarly overpriced.

      The most I’ve ever paid for coffee in the US was $20/lb at a local artisan roaster, where they’re blended and roasted right in the store. Usually my normal coffee is about $3-5/lb

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        21 days ago

        The guy is from an immigrant family, and his parents until recently worked minimum wage. It is just that the cost of living in Washington D.C. got this outrageous.

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          21 days ago

          Then sadly, knowing how a lot of my friends shopped when they were broke, I bet that it is something like a convenience store. Not saying that DC isn’t expensive, I was literally just there visiting a friend who lives there, but I also live in an area with a CoL well above the national average and coffee still isn’t $20 for cheap pre-ground stuff

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      21 days ago

      That’s also completely untrue lol that guy is either lying or buying a huge bag of the expensive shit